Writing

Rambling Reflections: On Summers in Switzerland and Sheffield

Posted on February 9, 2019February 9, 2019 by MAMcIntosh

In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from the peace of Lake Biel to the rugged Peaks — Seán Williams considers the connection between walking and writing. In late summer and early autumn of 1765, Rousseau was on the run. He was always fleeing some sort of persecution: at times very[…]

The Double World: One Man’s Search for Meaning in the Seattle Public Library

Posted on February 9, 2019February 9, 2019 by MAMcIntosh

Reality had always been viewed as a single unfolding history. Stapp postulated another physical, not spiritual, world. I knew Orrill Stapp before I met him. The thin man with the wire-rimmed glasses, battered briefcase, and scuffed shoes. The black woman with the long tweed coat, red lipstick, and bulging shoulder bags. The elderly man who looked like John Bolton, only with[…]